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Create your first VM in XCP-ng with Xen Orchestra CE step by step

 I made a tutorial that you can watch on my youtube channel HomeTinyLab. ▬ Contents of this video  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 - intro 0:23 - different ways to manage Xenserver overview 4:41 - SMB share to access iso install images 5:32 - logging in to Xen Orchestra 6:25 - adding the XCP-ng host 8:36 - defining ISO storage 11:28 - creating first VM 14:27 - installation process for Ubuntu live server 20:05 - installing xen tools on your new VM 22:21 - end word Other videos to go to: Installing XCP-ng https://youtu.be/FJh3yBrRuoc Installing Xen Orchestra Community Edition https://youtu.be/bzwFg6qrUoI For more information you can also use my blog https://hometinylab.blogspot.com/ Links to the software used in this video: XCP-ng : https://xcp-ng.org/#easy-to-install Xen Orchestra CE : https://github.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater XCP-ng Center : https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases/tag/v20.04.01.33 TrueNAS CORE : https://www.truenas.com/download-tn-core/ Ubuntu live server : https://r

Solving local storage problems in XCP-ng step by step

Look at the video on my youtube channel. First have a look at the XCP-ng doc about storage: https://xcp-ng.org/docs/storage.html#storage-types Look at your dashboard if you have nothing to clean up Opening a shell session to your XCP-ng host with the local storage problems Using the cat command to see the list of devices type # cat /proc/partitions Try to find out which disk is your new local disk # ll /dev/disk/by-id When you have identified the local drive, you can add the drive with Xen Orchestra

Installing Pop!_OS on XCP-ng and remote desktop into it from windows 10 step by step

Go watch the video.  download Pop!_OS Pop!_OS by System76 placing the iso on the VM share creating vm on xcp-ng installing xcp-ng guest utilities apt install xe-guest-utilities installing the remote desktop service  First step is to install Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server  xrdp  on the Ubuntu 20.04 desktop. To do so execute the following command: $ sudo apt install xrdp Enable to start after reboot and run the remote desktop sharing server  xrdp : $ sudo systemctl enable --now xrdp remote connect into it configure it to startup with xc-ng changing the look and feel of Pop!_OS

How to install Xen Orchestra community edition with certificates for https on ubuntu 20.04 for managing XCP-ng evironment step-by- step guide

The source for this information is https://github.com/Jarli01/xenorchestra_installer and the XCP-ng forum. Consult them it is a source of many solutions. To start you could install the XCP-ng center version to create your vm for installing Xen Orchestra. Or use the trial version of XOA by going to the url of your XCP-ng host and using quick deploy. The third option is go to my previous article on how to install a Xen Orchestra CE from image by using the xe cli commands https://hometinylab.blogspot.com/2020/11/how-to-install-xen-orchestra-community.html I think the simple route if you have a windows workstation is to use XCP-ng center windows. In my case I am going to start from the third option. Using my virtual Pop!_OS workstation on XCP-ng. Here we go: Login into Pop!_OS. Opening a session to Xen orchestra (running in a vm on my TreuNAS CORE 12) Cloning a fresh install of ubuntu 20.04 Renaming it to XOACE going to the VM config to assign more memory the minimum is 3 GiB so in static